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Ten things to know for Thursday, Sept. 4

Associated Press
7:25 a.m. CDT September 4, 2014

Erin Nwachukwu right, goes over class schedules with her friends, Khalidah Ahmad, left, and Yosef Smith, center, during orientation day Friday at Lindblom Math and Science Academy in Chicago. A new study has found that while Americans are mistrustful of each other and institutions -- from government to corporations and the media -- young people are among the least likely age group to have confidence in those institutions, especially since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. US, UK WILL ‘NOT BE COWED’ BY MILITANTS

Obama and Cameron declare that their nations will “be forthright” in the defense of their values from extremists who have ruthlessly taken over large areas of Iraq and Syria and killed two American journalists.

2. POLAND, BALTICS EXPECT MORE THAN WORDS FROM OBAMA

NATO’s eastern European members want permanent bases with troops on their land - a request unlikely to be granted due to the alliance’s 1997 agreement with Russia.

3. US TO INVESTIGATE FERGUSON POLICE

The Justice Department plans to open a probe into the practices of law enforcers following the shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old in the St. Louis suburb.

4. AL-QAIDA CLAIMS NEW OUTPOSTS

The group’s leader says in a video statement that it has expanded into the Indian subcontinent to “wage jihad against its enemies.”

5. WHICH CURE EXPERTS PROPOSE FOR EBOLA

Without any licensed drugs or vaccines for the deadly disease, some researchers say the blood of survivors is worth a shot.

6. IMAGINE JOHN LENNON’S LINK TO IMMIGRATION DEBATE

The argument over Obama’s legal authority to defer deportations begins 42 years ago with a bit of hashish, a dogged lawyer and, yes, the famous singer and Yoko Ono.

7. MILLENNIALS LESS TRUSTING THAN GEN X

A new study finds that today’s youth are often more skeptical of the country’s institutions than the young generations that preceded them.